Mitt Romney – Speaking About Mormon Faith

[Willard Mitt Romney (March 12, 1947)] Source: LYBIO.net
Let me help you understand. And you don’t understand my faith like I do. All right, so give me for a moment, the benefit of the doubt, that having been a leader of my Church, a bishop and a state president, I understand my Church better than you do.

[Jan Mickelson]
Right.

[Mitt Romney]
All right. My Church has very strong beliefs that Mormons should not participate in, encourage, in any way support abortion.

[Jan Mickelson]
You could be excommunicated if you do. It’s says right there. That’s what they say. I didn’t say it.

[Jan Mickelson]
Well, the reason I said that is because you also said in another forum, I think it was on Stephanopoulos, about the second coming of Christ,

[Mitt Romney]
Right.

[Jan Mickelson]
And you said it’s going to happen in Jerusalem.

[Mitt Romney]
It is.

[Jan Mickelson]
Your Church says it’s going to happen in Missouri.

[Mitt Romney]
No it doesn’t.

[Jan Mickelson]
All right is that wrong?

[Mitt Romney] Source: LYBIO.net
Is what wrong? Is what wrong?

[Jan Mickelson]
Okay. See, I…

[Mitt Romney]
The Church says that Christ appears in – on the Mount of Olives – and splits the Mount of Olives and appears in Jerusalem. That’s what the Church says. And then over a 1,000 years of the millennium, that the world is reigned in two places, Jerusalem and Missouri. That’s the church says. The second coming, the arrival of Jesus Christ, our Church says is in Jerusalem. That’s the church doctrine.

[Jan Mickelson]
Then Stephanopoulos miss-quoted your Church, which is not surprising, but I was basing,

[Mitt Romney]
That’s fine. That’s fine.

[Jan Mickelson] Source: LYBIO.net
I was basing my question on that permits.

[Mitt Romney]
Cleon Skousen has a book called a thousand years, so you can talk about, Christ appears, its throughout the bible Christ appears in Jerusalem, splits the Mount Of Olives, to stop the war that’s coming to kill all the Jews its – its – our Church believes that, that’s when the coming and glory of Christ occurs, we also believe that over the thousand of years that follow, and the millennium he will reign from two places.

[Jan Mickelson]
Right.

[Mitt Romney]
That the law will come forward from one place – from Missouri, and the other will be from Jerusalem, but that’s, now back to abortion.

[Jan Mickelson]
Before, I have to get back on the air,

[Mitt Romney]
Yeah.

[Jan Mickelson]
Before we doing things, I want you to understand one thing. I take this stuff really seriously.

[Mitt Romney]
Oh, I don’t though. For me this is all frivolous.

[Jan Mickelson]
No, I take you…

[Mitt Romney] Source: LYBIO.net
Come on! I’m running for president.

[Jan Mickelson]
Just relax. And I take you seriously.

[Mitt Romney]
But you are not giving me the opportunity to explain to you

[Jan Mickelson]
We don’t get…

[Mitt Romney]
That my faith has very strong beliefs that if I commit an abortion, encourage an abortion, I was beaten up in Boston because I pointed out time and again that I encouraged girls not to get abortions. That I told them to have adoptions, I have never done anything that anyway violates the principles of my Church, in that regard, I’ve made other mistakes, but in that regard. But the Church does not say that a member of our Church has to be apposed to allowing choice in society. It is not say that and therefore there are Mormon democrats. There is a democratic party in Massa – in Utah, filled with Mormons, and the Church doesn’t say their wrong, their being excommunicated, no it says look we are vehemently apposed to abortion, ourselves, and for ourselves, but we allow other people to make their own choice. I disagree with that view. Politically, I looked at it and said, you know what, that’s wrong, and its not a Mormon thing, it’s a secular position to say you know what, I was wrong, we should have in society a prohibition on abortion in the following circumstances.

[Jan Mickelson]
When…

[Mitt Romney]
But its not violating my faith let me assure you.

[Jan Mickelson]
When – I hope we can do this so that we can spend some…

[Mitt Romney] Source: LYBIO.net
Okay.

[Jan Mickelson]
Quality time on here rather than the sound bites.

[Mitt Romney]
No, I don’t like coming on the air, and having you go after my Church, and me…

[Jan Mickelson]
I’m not going after your Church.

[Mitt Romney]
I know, that’s right, but I’m not running as a Mormon. And I get a little tired of coming on a show like yours and having it all about Mormon.

[Jan Mickelson]
See, I don’t mind it being about that.

[Mitt Romney]
Yeah, I do. I do.

[Jan Mickelson]
I agree with the ethics of your Church for Pete’s sake.

[Mitt Romney]
So do I. So do I.

[Jan Mickelson] Source: LYBIO.net
Well, so I was trying to…

[Mitt Romney]
No you are trying to tell me that I’m not a faithful Mormon or that ( ) of my church.

[Jan Mickelson]
No I’m trying to get you to reconcile what I think is a disparity

[Mitt Romney]
And have a great discussion about Mormonism, and the Mormon Church, and read the doctrines of the Church, and where my view is and you know what, I’m not running to talk about Mormonism.

[Jan Mickelson]
No, but the point is the people who are likely to vote, don’t want to elect, a Ted Kennedy, who runs – comes back, or a Senator Harkin, who comes hear to Dowling, and comes hear to Iowa, and says I’m pro-life and when he gets to Washington stands up and becomes pro-choice.

[Mitt Romney]
Here is your opportunity to have that settled in your mind. I was governor four years. That is not just what I’m talking about. I was governor for four years. I had a number of pieces of legislation that came to my desk that dealt with abortion, abstinence education, RU-486, and so forth. I vetoed any bill that was in favor of choice. I was entirely consistent in favor of life. And so it’s not just my word that you have to take. Look at my record.

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